Improvement in horse-collars



`W..1J.'GrIBBS.

. HORSE-COLLAR. No.177.329. Patented May16,187e.

UNT@ STATES PATENT. OFFICE 1 WESLEY DAVIDSON vGrIBBS, OF ITHACA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN HoRsE-coLLARs.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,329, dated May 16, 1876; application filed November 11, 187;). y

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WESLEY D. GrBBs, of Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York, have inventeda certain Improvement in Constructing Horse-Collars, ot' which the following is a specitcation:

vMy invention relates to the construction of my horse-collar, and will be apparent as I describe it.

Figure l is a partially sectional view of my collar; Fig. 2, a transverse sectional view; Fig'. 3, a View of the tubular foundation of my collar separate from the collar.

In the gures, b is the tubular foundation orfranle, having the rein loops or runners d fast to this foundation, near the upper portion of it, and the trace-hooks efast also to it at the usual distance of the trace-hooks from the bottom, and these parts d and e project through the 'padding` t and its leather covering, and

have attached vto them the usual parts of thel harness, as reins through the rein-rings and trace-connections, or the tracehooks directlyV into the apertures in the trace hooks `or eyes. A strap' at c in a slot in the top of the tubular i'oundat'ionof each side of the collar connects the tubular foundation or frames together, and a snap orother lock secures the tubular parts stitching on the projecting ends of the frames,l

as represented, and the collar is then padded with straw or other material, and the aperture then left for the stuffing' is stitched tightly on the` projecting ends for the locking.

Thus I have a collar constructed or built o the tubular foundation, which is in the body or pad ofthe collar, and the collar is both collar and haine in one article.

v The advantages and uses of my invention are apparentto those familiar with the art to,

which it appertains.

/ I claimt In a horse collar, the foundation or `core composed of a tubular frame, flattened at its up- .per end, and provided with tug-loops, and terret-rings extending through the padding, also with end fastening-S, substantially as described.

.WESLEY DAVIDSON GiBBs.'

Witnesses:

S. J. PARKER, SAME. Love.' 

